Jun Okada
Biographic Data
| ID | 4975490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jun Okada |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jun |
| FAMILY NAME | Okada |
| SIGNATURE | OKADA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Tokyo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9895-0762 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Operationalising the people-centred approach in small-town heritage governance: Mechanism making in Uchiko, Japan
Under conditions of fragmented authority, demographic decline, and limited institutional capacity, how can the People-Centred Approach (PCA) become operationally embedded in local heritage governance? This article addresses this question through a longitudinal case study of Uchiko Town in Japan, a nationally designated Traditional Buildings Preservation District. Drawing on a Critical Realist research design, the study conceptualises mechanism-ma…
Reproducing place attachment through people-centered heritage practices: Relationship making in Uchiko Town, Japan
In the context of population ageing and depopulation, historic small towns increasingly adopt heritage-led regeneration strategies. The People-Centred Approach (PCA) has become a key discourse in contemporary heritage governance, yet empirical evidence on how PCA becomes affectively embedded in everyday life and how it reshapes place attachment over time remains limited. This study examines Uchiko Town, Japan, a historic small town with more than…
Representation, Recognition, and the Possibility of a Radically Transformed Future: The Asian Americans Series
Asian Americans, a new five-part PBS series co-produced by Renee Tajima-Peña, Grace Lee, S. Leo Chiang, and Geeta Gandbhir has managed to do a rarity within the genre of Asian American film and video: addressing the need to make Asian Americans visible while simultaneously exploring deeper issues of race, racism, immigration, citizenship, and history that confront and engage the viewer in the ongoing need for social change. This series comes at a…
A Self-Defining Series: A Forum on the PBS’s Asian Americans
This forum brings together three filmmakers responsible for creating the groundbreaking PBS documentary series, Asian Americans. S. Leo Chiang, Grace Lee, and Renee Tajima-Peña reflect on the making of the series and its impact
James Tweedie, The Age of New Waves: Art Cinema and the Staging of Globalization
Judging by the capacity audience at a workshop on ‘The world cinema turn in film studies’ at the 2015 Society for Cinema Studies Conference in Montréal, debates around ‘global art cinema’ continue to be of keen interest to scholars. No doubt many had gathered to hear Dudley Andrew, who unfortunately made a last-minute cancellation. By imagining world cinema as more nuanced and multidimensional than it has traditionally been categorized, Andrew su…
Making Asian American Film and Video: History, Institutions, Movements
The words "Asian American film" might evoke a painfully earnest, low-budget documentary or family drama, destined to be seen only in small film festivals or on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service). In her groundbreaking study of the past fifty years of Asian American film and video, Jun Okada demonstrates that although this stereotype is not entirely unfounded, a remarkably diverse range of Asian American filmmaking has emerged. Yet Okada also revea…
"Noble and Uplifting and Boring as Hell": Asian American Film and Video, 1971–1982
Asian American film and video evolved out of the civil rights and ethnic studies movements, sharing with them a fundamental ideology of social change. However, a closer examination of its institutional history shows how this tradition conflicted with an equally important and at times contradictory discourse of aesthetics and form
The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/Asian American Women on Stage and Screen (review)
Reviewed by: The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/Asian American Women on Stage and Screen Jun Okada (bio) The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/Asian American Women on Stage and Screen. By Celine Parreñas-Shimizu. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. After suffering the indignities of her ABC sitcom All American Girl, which threatened to annihilate her polymorphous perversity, Margaret Cho exasperatingly asked in her hit stand-up …
The PBS and Naata Connection: Comparing the Public Spheres of Asian American Film and Video
Making Asian American Film and Video: History, Institutions, Movements
The words "Asian American film" might evoke a painfully earnest, low-budget documentary or family drama, destined to be seen only in small film festivals or on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service). In her groundbreaking study of the past fifty years of Asian American film and video, Jun Okada demonstrates that although this stereotype is not entirely unfounded, a remarkably diverse range of Asian American filmmaking has emerged. Yet Okada also revea…
The PBS and Naata Connection: Comparing the Public Spheres of Asian American Film and Video
The PBS and Naata Connection: Comparing the Public Spheres of Asian American Film and Video
The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/Asian American Women on Stage and Screen (review)
Reviewed by: The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/Asian American Women on Stage and Screen Jun Okada (bio) The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/Asian American Women on Stage and Screen. By Celine Parreñas-Shimizu. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. After suffering the indignities of her ABC sitcom All American Girl, which threatened to annihilate her polymorphous perversity, Margaret Cho exasperatingly asked in her hit stand-up …
"Noble and Uplifting and Boring as Hell": Asian American Film and Video, 1971–1982
Asian American film and video evolved out of the civil rights and ethnic studies movements, sharing with them a fundamental ideology of social change. However, a closer examination of its institutional history shows how this tradition conflicted with an equally important and at times contradictory discourse of aesthetics and form
Making Asian American Film and Video: History, Institutions, Movements
The words "Asian American film" might evoke a painfully earnest, low-budget documentary or family drama, destined to be seen only in small film festivals or on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service). In her groundbreaking study of the past fifty years of Asian American film and video, Jun Okada demonstrates that although this stereotype is not entirely unfounded, a remarkably diverse range of Asian American filmmaking has emerged. Yet Okada also revea…
James Tweedie, The Age of New Waves: Art Cinema and the Staging of Globalization
Judging by the capacity audience at a workshop on ‘The world cinema turn in film studies’ at the 2015 Society for Cinema Studies Conference in Montréal, debates around ‘global art cinema’ continue to be of keen interest to scholars. No doubt many had gathered to hear Dudley Andrew, who unfortunately made a last-minute cancellation. By imagining world cinema as more nuanced and multidimensional than it has traditionally been categorized, Andrew su…
Representation, Recognition, and the Possibility of a Radically Transformed Future: The Asian Americans Series
Asian Americans, a new five-part PBS series co-produced by Renee Tajima-Peña, Grace Lee, S. Leo Chiang, and Geeta Gandbhir has managed to do a rarity within the genre of Asian American film and video: addressing the need to make Asian Americans visible while simultaneously exploring deeper issues of race, racism, immigration, citizenship, and history that confront and engage the viewer in the ongoing need for social change. This series comes at a…
A Self-Defining Series: A Forum on the PBS’s Asian Americans
This forum brings together three filmmakers responsible for creating the groundbreaking PBS documentary series, Asian Americans. S. Leo Chiang, Grace Lee, and Renee Tajima-Peña reflect on the making of the series and its impact
Operationalising the people-centred approach in small-town heritage governance: Mechanism making in Uchiko, Japan
Under conditions of fragmented authority, demographic decline, and limited institutional capacity, how can the People-Centred Approach (PCA) become operationally embedded in local heritage governance? This article addresses this question through a longitudinal case study of Uchiko Town in Japan, a nationally designated Traditional Buildings Preservation District. Drawing on a Critical Realist research design, the study conceptualises mechanism-ma…
Reproducing place attachment through people-centered heritage practices: Relationship making in Uchiko Town, Japan
In the context of population ageing and depopulation, historic small towns increasingly adopt heritage-led regeneration strategies. The People-Centred Approach (PCA) has become a key discourse in contemporary heritage governance, yet empirical evidence on how PCA becomes affectively embedded in everyday life and how it reshapes place attachment over time remains limited. This study examines Uchiko Town, Japan, a historic small town with more than…
Asian Culture and Media Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Asian americans (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Ethnic group (4 works) · History (4 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (4 works)